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Evidence Code - EVID

DIVISION 10. HEARSAY EVIDENCE [1200 - 1390]

CHAPTER 2. Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule [1220 - 1390]

( Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299. )

ARTICLE 8. Official Records and Other Official Writings [1280 - 1284]

( Article 8 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299. )

1284.

Evidence of a writing made by the public employee who is the official custodian of the records in a public office, reciting diligent search and failure to find a record, is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered to prove the absence of a record in that office.